Triple

T3327244
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John R. Rickford E69943 entity
Predicate awardReceived P11 FINISHED
Object American Book Award for "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"
The American Book Award for "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English" is a literary honor recognizing John R. Rickford’s influential work on the history, structure, and cultural significance of African American English.
E349254 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: American Book Award for "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English" | Statement: [John R. Rickford, awardReceived, American Book Award for "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Book Award for "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"
Context triple: [John R. Rickford, awardReceived, American Book Award for "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"]
  • A. Lillian Smith Book Award
    The Lillian Smith Book Award is a literary prize honoring works that address issues of social justice, civil rights, and racial inequality in the American South.
  • B. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
    The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is a prestigious literary prize that honors books contributing to our understanding of racism and the appreciation of human diversity.
  • C. The Development of African American English
    "The Development of African American English" is a scholarly work that examines the historical origins, structural features, and sociolinguistic evolution of African American English.
  • D. Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing excellence in spoken word recordings, including audiobooks, poetry, and storytelling performances.
  • E. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
    The Norton Anthology of African American Literature is a widely used scholarly collection that surveys and contextualizes major works by African American writers from the eighteenth century to the present.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: American Book Award for "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"
Triple: [John R. Rickford, awardReceived, American Book Award for "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"]
Generated description
The American Book Award for "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English" is a literary honor recognizing John R. Rickford’s influential work on the history, structure, and cultural significance of African American English.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: American Book Award for "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English"
Target entity description: The American Book Award for "Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English" is a literary honor recognizing John R. Rickford’s influential work on the history, structure, and cultural significance of African American English.
  • A. Lillian Smith Book Award
    The Lillian Smith Book Award is a literary prize honoring works that address issues of social justice, civil rights, and racial inequality in the American South.
  • B. Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
    The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award is a prestigious literary prize that honors books contributing to our understanding of racism and the appreciation of human diversity.
  • C. The Development of African American English
    "The Development of African American English" is a scholarly work that examines the historical origins, structural features, and sociolinguistic evolution of African American English.
  • D. Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album
    The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album is a prestigious music industry honor recognizing excellence in spoken word recordings, including audiobooks, poetry, and storytelling performances.
  • E. The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
    The Norton Anthology of African American Literature is a widely used scholarly collection that surveys and contextualizes major works by African American writers from the eighteenth century to the present.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69ad85a1829881908942c14075644d0d completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb16f61248190bab10f4ac9e066f7 completed March 8, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b31a7ce34c81908df0c30a41fd925c completed March 12, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b31c368e4c8190a011833fce090a7d completed March 12, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b31d3fa6088190a5abf858c01c25bc completed March 12, 2026, 8:08 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.